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Body The Stockton High School seniors enjoyed a class trip to Grand Lake, Colorado during the middle of March. They headed out very early in the morning at 2:00 a.m., on Thursday, March 18th with their first stop at a Trampoline Park in Denver.

Body The 2021 annual Solomon Valley Pheasants Forever Banquet was held on Saturday, April 10th at the St. Thomas Parish Center in Stockton. To say the banquet was a success is putting it mildly since the event recorded a record crowd of 280 RSVPs with 345 people in attendance!

Body Cheer and dance tryouts for the Stockton High School and Junior High were held on Saturday, April 10th. The following squads will be cheering and dancing for the sports teams throughout the coming school year! Congratulations, and Go, Tigers!

Body This year’s SHS Prom will be held at the 4-H Building at the Rooks County Fairgrounds, with the meal to be served at 7:00 p.m. and the dance held from 8:00 p.m.

Body At the regular monthly meeting of the Stockton USD 271 Board of Education held on Tuesday, April 6th, the members voted to stop temperature checks and move to masks recommended except as required by KSHSAA, travel outside the District or if there is a positive case at the school.

Body Heath Latham, MD, Associate Professor for the Department of Internal Medicine at the KU Medical Center, was officially notified on Thursday, April 1st by Executive Vice Chancellor Robert D. Simari, MD, that Latham’s promotion to Professor had been approved by Chancellor Girod.

Body Jennifer Kesler, second grade teacher at Stockton Grade School, and Shane Austin, Agriculture Education at Stockton, were the District’s Kansas Teacher of the Year (KTOY) nominees from USD 271 for Region 1.